Re: Ethnologue exercise
From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
Date: | Saturday, September 16, 2000, 7:23 |
VIVO (properly VIVO LINGA). Creole language.
Approx. 2,750,000 speakers/users (circa 2323 CE/123 SE) on the Terran
expatriate colony planet Polo near Caos Vorta - one of the first Terran
star-jump gates. Once the principal trade-and-barter pidgin language, now
second language creole of most. Declared by popular vote official language of
Polo on the eve of January 1, 2301 CE/101 SE.
Typology: SVO, isolating/agglutinizing, Italo-polyglot creole.
Phonemic writing system based on Basic Modern Roman with use of punctuation
marks. Est. 99% literacy. Spirituality or worldview: Chaos Taoism - a
mixture of Chaos Science, Taoism, and Gaian Futurism. Adherents are noted
throughtout Terran space for extremely creative use of various communication
technologies -especially soundscapes -and for their ecology-minded
terracolonizing methods perfected on Polo.